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Reading a property file from WEB-INF/conf from a servlet

Hello All,

This is a pretty basic question. I want to know the standard way by which a properties file in the WEB-INF/conf can be retrieved by a servlet. That is the way in which it has the minimum dependencies with the appserver (i.e the directory in which the webapps is located, the make of appserver etc.)

I have used the init-param tags, but I had to give the full path (i.e C:\\Apache..) as the param value.

TYA,
QMS

CEHJ

Try

URLConnection conn = new URLConnection("/WEB-INF/conf/x.properties");

armoghan

Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/conf/x.properties");

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CEHJ

Please tell us which work and which don't before accepting sperin

Mick Barry

> Please tell us which work and which don't before accepting sperin

I think you're supposed to tell sperin what works :-D

Mick Barry

Thanks sperin :)

Let me know if you have any further questions.

CEHJ

sperin

ASKER

Will tell you chaps about it. I was aware of a ServletContext object, so I too a wild guess and accepted the reply from objects. Now if that does'nt work, well my bad luck :)

CEHJ

LOL. Aside from rudely ignoring my request, you'd have thought from your point of view it might be just slightly useful to check the answers before making a choice.

armoghan